December 2025

There’s a rare kind of confidence that comes from building something entirely on your own and Bury The Pines wear that confidence like armor. Their debut full-length, Industry Plant, doesn’t sound like a first record. It sounds like a proof of concept; that a band can throw post-hardcore, progressive rock, math rock, and pure emotional

With recent album ‘Pertinax’, Suris, composed of Lindsey and David Mackiemade a record that was almost embarrassingly earnest. It didn’t wink at you. It didn’t sound like it was written by a committee trying to forecast next week’s Spotify trend. It just existed, lush and vulnerable, the sound of two people who actually cared. The

Andrew Savage’s Patchwork is the kind of debut album that sounds like it was recorded by three people who wandered into a studio, shrugged collectively, and said, “Yeah, that seems in tune enough.” And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. It’s unpolished, a little wobbly, very human and brilliant. This is an